This artwork is part of the Unknown Masterpiece painting series

Year: 2019
Size: 70x170cm
Materials: Acrylic on Canvas

Perfection shouldn't be discriminatory or diminishing, it should be something you strive for, something that drives you forward, it should be something that brings you immense delight and pleasure when getting close to or actually experiencing it. This might seem as a slippery slope of perfectionism but perfection is far easier to achieve than most of us think, as it exists everywhere around us in things and people we cherish most. As trivial as it is, love is the almighty factor in all great masterpieces created. Be that love to the subject matter or to the craft of making art, a masterpiece is blazing with it. In love we find perfection.



Flies (I See Perfection)

Year: 2021
Size: 110x150cm
Materials: Acrylic on Canvas

This painting is inspired by Baudelaire's poem Le Mort Joyeux and is dedicated to one of my grandmothers.

Le Mort Joyeux

Dans une terre grasse et pleine d'escargots
Je veux creuser moi-même une fosse profonde,
Où je puisse à loisir étaler mes vieux os
Et dormir dans l'oubli comme un requin dans l'onde.
Je hais les testaments et je hais les tombeaux;
Plutôt que d'implorer une larme du monde,
Vivant, j'aimerais mieux inviter les corbeaux
A saigner tous les bouts de ma carcasse immonde.
O vers! noirs compagnons sans oreille et sans yeux,
Voyez venir à vous un mort libre et joyeux;
Philosophes viveurs, fils de la pourriture,
A travers ma ruine allez donc sans remords,
Et dites-moi s'il est encore quelque torture
Pour ce vieux corps sans âme et mort parmi les morts!

Charles Baudelaire

Not Out Of The Woods Yet

Year: 2021
Size: 70x50cm
Materials: Oil on Canvas

Adulthood can be hard to wrap your mind around. In the eyes of the young woman in the painting one can sense a presence of questioning, slight lostness and perhaps a bit of sadness. The body position is highly posed, as if the girl is trying to make the viewer like her, the pose does't look very comfortable. This work embodies the feeling of coming of age as a young female and trying to find a place in the world.

Yellow Forest

Year: 2021
Size: 50x50cm
Materials: Acrylic on Canvas

Perfection shouldn't be discriminatory or diminishing, it should be something you strive for, something that drives you forward, it should be something that brings you immense delight and pleasure when getting close to or actually experiencing it. This might seem as a slippery slope of perfectionism but perfection is far easier to achieve than most of us think, as it exists everywhere around us in things and people we cherish most. As trivial as it is, love is the almighty factor in all great masterpieces created. Be that love to the subject matter or to the craft of making art, a masterpiece is blazing with it. In love we find perfection.

YellowBlueBus

Year: 2021
Size: 50x100cm
Materials: Oil on Canvas

Perfection shouldn't be discriminatory or diminishing, it should be something you strive for, something that drives you forward, it should be something that brings you immense delight and pleasure when getting close to or actually experiencing it. This might seem as a slippery slope of perfectionism but perfection is far easier to achieve than most of us think, as it exists everywhere around us in things and people we cherish most. As trivial as it is, love is the almighty factor in all great masterpieces created. Be that love to the subject matter or to the craft of making art, a masterpiece is blazing with it. In love we find perfection.

Daydreaming

Perfection shouldn't be discriminatory or diminishing, it should be something you strive for, something that drives you forward, it should be something that brings you immense delight and pleasure when getting close to or actually experiencing it. This might seem as a slippery slope of perfectionism but perfection is far easier to achieve than most of us think, as it exists everywhere around us in things and people we cherish most. As trivial as it is, love is the almighty factor in all great masterpieces created. Be that love to the subject matter or to the craft of making art, a masterpiece is blazing with it. In love we find perfection.

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